Looking for America

Looking for America
Studio album by Carla Bley
Released 2003
Recorded October 7-8, 2002
Genre Jazz
Label Watt/ECM
Producer Steve Swallow
Carla Bley chronology
4 x 4
(1999)4 x 41999		 Looking for America
(2002)		 The Lost Chords
(2003)The Lost Chords2003

Looking for America is an album by American composer, bandleader and keyboardist Carla Bley recorded in 2002 and released on the Watt/ECM label in 2003.[1][2]

Reception

The Allmusic review by Thom Jurek awarded the album 4 stars and stated "Looking for America is a fun, innovative, and indefatigable album by one of the true geniuses in modern jazz".[3] The JazzTimes review by Harvey Siders said "Inevitably, sardonic wit pervades her search on Looking for America as fragments of "The Star-Spangled Banner" materialize-dreamlike, impressionistically and, above all, whimsically-throughout the CD".[4] The Penguin Guide to Jazz awarded it 3⅓ stars stating "As an exploration of Americana, this is a fine and fun album".[5]

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic[3]
Penguin Guide to Jazz[5]

Track listing

All compositions by Carla Bley except where noted.

  1. "Grand Mother" - 0:53
  2. "The National Anthem: OG Can UC?/Flags/Whose Broad Stripes?/Anthem/Keep It Spangled" - 21:49
  3. "Step Mother" - 3:18
  4. "Fast Lane" - 5:17
  5. "Los Cocineros" - 10:57
  6. "Your Mother" - 1:41
  7. "Tijuana Traffic" - 8:05
  8. "God Mother" - 1:27
  9. "Old MacDonald Had a Farm" (Traditional) - 6:15

Personnel

References

  1. ↑ Carla Bley discography accessed August 12, 2010
  2. ↑ ECM/WATT discography accessed August 25, 2016
  3. 1 2 Jurek, T. Allmusic Review accessed August 12, 2010
  4. ↑ Siders, H. Looking for America Review JazzTimes, June, 2003
  5. 1 2 Cook, Richard; Brian Morton (2006) [1992]. The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings. The Penguin Guide to Jazz (8th ed.). New York: Penguin. p. 131. ISBN 0-14-102327-9.
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